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Anti-toll Group Wants GA-400 Tolls Abolished

EDINBURGH, UNITED KINGDOM - FEBRUARY 10: Motorists start to travel toll free on the Forth Road Bridge February 10, 2008 in Edinburgh, Scotland. For the first time since the bridge was opened in 1964, motorists driving across the Forth can travel free of charge. The tolls have also been lifted on the Tay Road Bridge, which opened 1966. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images) (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

FULTON COUNTY, GA (CBS ATL/WAOK) – Anti-toll activists are calling on Gov. Nathan Deal to honor his campaign pledge to get rid of the tolls on GA-400.

Voter GA said the tolls paid for the highway years ago and that there is no need to keep them.

State officials in the early 1990s promised they would remove the 50-cent toll once the highway was paid for. That was supposed to happen last year, but the state Road and Tollway Authority and the Georgia Department of Transportation voted to extend the toll to 2020. The agencies said they needed the additional money to pay for a $21-million interchange connecting GA-400 to Interstate-85.